Writing Labor's Emancipation: The Anarchist Life and Times of Jay Fox

by Greg Hall

Book Overview

Jay Fox (1870-1961) was a journalist, intellectual, and labor militant whose influence rippled across the country. In Writing Labor's Emancipation, historian Greg Hall traces Fox's unorthodox life to highlight the shifting dynamics in US labor radicalism from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century.

Radicalized as a teenager after witnessing the Haymarket tragedy, Fox embarked on a lifetime of union organizing, building...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295750588
• ISBN13: 9780295750583
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher